Vistors to Marina Bay stroll on a bridge with a view of the Central Enterprise District in Singapore on Sunday, 18 June 2023. (Picture by Joseph Nair/NurPhoto by way of Getty Photos) (Picture by Joseph Nair/NurPhoto by way of Getty Photos)
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SINGAPORE — Singapore’s digital economic system contributed to greater than 17% of its gross home product in 2022 — greater than the 13% logged in 2017, in line with a report by the nation’s Infocomm Media Improvement Authority.
The examine, revealed Friday, revealed that the financial contribution of the digital economic system to Singapore’s GDP practically doubled to 106 billion Singapore {dollars} ($77.5 billion) in 2022, up from SG$58 billion in 2017, in line with CNBC’s calculations.
The digital economic system is split into two elements: the data and communications sector; and digitalization in the remainder of the economic system.
One-third of the digital economic system was pushed by the data and communications sector and two-thirds by digitalization in the remainder of the economic system.
The I&C sector drove digitalization offering providers corresponding to telecommunications, laptop programming & IT consultancy, cloud computing and software program improvement.
Digitalization in the remainder of the economic system measures the worth generated from investments and spending in digital capital throughout all sectors excluding these from the I&C sector. They embrace financial outcomes because of corporations investing in digital applied sciences that construct worth corresponding to attain prospects higher, optimize enterprise processes in addition to innovate services.
“The growth of the digital economic system has come on the again of accelerating adoption of digital applied sciences by enterprises, which in flip contributed to the strong development of tech manpower,” IMDA stated within the report.
Primarily based on the newest obtainable knowledge, the digital economies of Estonia, Sweden and the UK accounted for 16.6%, 15% and 16.1% of their respective GDPs in 2020. Comparatively, Singapore’s digital economic system carried out higher, contributing to 16.7% of its GDP in 2020.
The important thing sub-sectors driving double-digit development within the info and communications sector — at a fee of as excessive as 70% — had been video games, on-line providers, and e-commerce, in line with IMDA. They had been pushed by elevated adoption in the course of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The worth-add from digitalization in the remainder of the economic system elevated from SG$38.6 billion in 2017 to SG$72.8 billion in 2022, pushed primarily by sectors in finance and insurance coverage, wholesale commerce, and manufacturing.
In consequence, the value-add from digitalization as a share of the economic system rose steadily from 8.7% in 2017 to 11.9% in 2022, the report stated.
That is equal to an annual compound development fee of 13.5%, which is quicker than the three.8% development of Singapore’s GDP in 2022. CAGR is a measure of funding returns, which takes into consideration what an funding yields at an annual fee over a specified interval.
Extra corporations utilizing digital applied sciences
The expansion of digitalization in the remainder of the economic system is pushed by extra corporations stepping up on their use of digital applied sciences.
The know-how adoption fee of companies grew from 74% in 2018 to 94% in 2022, in line with IMDA’s annual survey.
In consequence, extra tech professionals had been deployed throughout all sectors, with the variety of tech jobs rising from about 155,500 in 2017 to 201,100 in 2022.
“Regardless of the latest tech sector lay-offs, the demand for tech jobs is prone to stay resilient, because the digitalization of the economic system deepens,” stated IMDA.
“General, Singapore’s digital economic system has been rising strongly and its longer-term outlook stays optimistic. The Singapore authorities continues to be dedicated to rising a aggressive digital economic system and fostering a technology-skilled workforce,” stated IMDA.
Deputy Prime Minister Lawrence Wong stated in his finances proposal for 2022 that the federal government will make investments SG$200 million over the subsequent few years into initiatives that construct digital capabilities in companies and employees.
